Newspaper-holder.



H. T. GAY.

NEWSPAPER HOLDER.

APPLICATION men SEPT.29. ms.

1,270,6 1 1 Patented June 25, 1918.

TH E EVENING BUGLE.

TED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERMAN T. GAY, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF FOUR-TENTHS TO JOHNFREDERICK NAUMAN, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

NEWSPAPER-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 25, 1918.

Application filed September 29, 1916. Serial No. 122,895.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMAN T. GAY, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Baltimore, Maryland, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Newspaper-Holders, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention more especially relates to a device in which a newspapermay be conveniently slid and detachably held in a portable tubular andlongitudinally slotted support, which, preferably at its lower end, isprovided with a handle adapted to be grasped by the reader while he isholding up and perusing the paper, and also at its other end with a ringor hook whereby the device, either with or without the newspaper, may behung up when not in use.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 shows the device with a newspaperinserted therein for the perusal of the reader. Fig. 2 is a full sizeview, partly in longitudinal section. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectionsomewhat enlargedtaken as on the line 33 of Fig. 1, showing the tubularsupport and an attached or inserted multipaged newspaper. Fig. 4: is anenlarged view showing the upper part of the device.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, 1 is the tubular support longitudinallyslotted as at 4, and 2 the handle. The newspaper, which is held in theslot 4, is designated by A. (Jentrally of the tubular support 1 is a rod5. This rod is rigidly attached to the handle 2 as seen in Fig. 2, andpasses through the entire length of the tubular support, and is providedwith a suspension ring or hook 3.

The upper end of the support 1 is given a curved or angular shape asshown more particularly in Figs. 2 and 3, which furnishes an insertopening for the newspaper.

In operation, the newspaper A is at its fold slipped over the ring orhook 3 and its rod 5, and slid down past the insert opening so as toassume the position seen in Fig. 1, when it is capable of beingconveniently spread open. by the reader. The newspaper is kept in theslot 4 by means of the rod 5 as will be understood.

The reader having perused, say, the first page of the newspaper mayconveniently turn it back upon the last sheet, and con tinue such actionin a way fully understood, until all the pages have been read by him.

I claim as my invention In a newspaper holder, the combination of ahandle, a tube rigidly fixed thereto, said tube having a continuouslongitudinal slot above said handle and. at its upper end a curved orangular opening furnishing an insert for the newspaper, and a rodrigidly attached to said handle concentrically of said tube, said rodhaving a projecting guiding end to cooperate with the insert end of saidtube, the construction being such that a folded newspaper may be slippedover the projecting guiding end of said rod into the insert of the tubeand carried down the slotted tube to said handle.

HERMAN T. GAY.

Witnesses:

JULIA B. ROBINSON, IRENE COHEN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0.

